Free Mental Health First Aid Training On June 7

Health and Social Services Consortium, Inc. (HESSCO) and The Community Health Coalition of Metro West (CHNA 7) will host a free training on Mental Health First Aid on June 7, 2019, from 9am-5pm. It will be located at the Foxboro Public Safety Building in the McGinty Room, 8 Chestnut Street, Foxboro, MA and lunch will be served. Registration will begin at 8:45pm.

Mental Health First Aid is a training whose goal is to enable the attendee to help someone who is developing a mental health problem or having a mental health crisis. The program states that it wants to make mental health first aid as common as CPR training. This free training is appropriate for health and human service workers; caring citizens; members of faith communities; nurses, care providers; persons with mental illness and their families; policymakers; police, first responders, corrections, and security workers. This training is valued at $179 per person and is being offered free of charge. Like the March training, the program is funded by CHNA-7 and coordinated by HESSCO.

HESSCO is an elder services agency whose catchment area includes Westwood. It offers services including home care, caregiver support, and elder protective services.

If you are interested in this training, please contact Ann Rudy ASAP at 781-784-4944 or ARudy@HESSCO.org. Registration will also be available on Eventbrite through June 4.